How are trains transported to their tracks?

I live in New Zealand. We buy most of our new trains from overseas - we just shut our last major rail manufacturing workshop in Dunedin a few years ago. Our capital has purchased some new trains. read more

We buy most of our new trains from overseas - we just shut our last major rail manufacturing workshop in Dunedin a few years ago. Our capital has purchased some new trains. Here is a corporate video on the whole process of getting the train. read more

Rail transport is an energy-efficient but capital-intensive means of mechanized land transport. The tracks provide smooth and hard surfaces on which the wheels of the train can roll with a relatively low level of friction being generated. read more

The Reichsbahn was paid the equivalent of a third class railway ticket for every prisoner transported to their destination: 8,000,000 passengers 4 Pfennig per track kilometer, times 600 km (average voyage length), equaled 240 million Reichsmarks. read more